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Create your own favicon.ico online!

Ever wonder what’s favicon.ico is? favicon.ico is a small icon which appears on the left side of your browser address bar when you surf certain web page like this :

Before   After

I found an interesting webpage which allow you to create favicon.ico online and put it in your webpage.

The website interface is easy to use. You just have to select which picture you would like to create the icon for and click “Generate favicon.ico”.


favicon tutorial

After that, you may want to download the generated favicon.ico, and upload it to your website. Then, to display the icon next to your webpage name, you need to include this line in between your <head> </head> tags :

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

Alternatively if you like, you could (offline) produce favicon.ico file from png files, provided that the png files dimension are multiples of 8.

First download this program png2ico. Then, you can create a png file (or use readily available gnome png icon hehe). Finally, you can run the png2ico program on the png files by typing :

png2ico favicon.ico tux.png

After that, you will find yourself having a Microsoft compatible icon file. Generated from PNG!

What? you don’t know what is PNG? It’s an image format similiar to GIF files. Well, you can always look here Portable Network Graphic.

For other instructions generating favicon.ico, please refer to : DumbWebProgrammer

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Wow! New Look, Same Content

Today, I finally got the time and guts to completely redesigned my blog using css. Well the result of the work is satisfactory for me, considering it’s the first time I use css completely to redesign a website.

I have reorganize my fellow bloggers’ links into alphabetical order. Manage to fix the “CSS Tooltips” bug, now it works in Internet Exploer! I reduce the extensive decorative graphics and slim down the css files to bare minimum.

You can say that I’m satisfied with one day work on my own blog including redesigning, debugging and testing.

Though I can call it a day, but the blog still have some rendering bug with Internet Explorer 6, I dont have access with other version of Internet Explorer though. The css standard is not equally implemented across the browsers.

Next, I’ll implement the Mozilla prefetch optimization on selected links in my blog, to enhance users experience while using my blog.

Till the next time….

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Opera now includes built-in BitTorrent

Opera software makes an inovative move to include BitTorrent client inside their browser. The integration of this technology will allow end users to download files faster by taking full advantage of available bandwidth and reducing the chance of delays when multiple users go after the same file.

Although BitTorrent users is notoriously known to conduct illegal software exchanging, Opera Software is positive towards its implementation in their browser.

Opera rationalize their move by comparing BitTorrent use for piracy with the use of HTTP or FTP protocol to conduct illegal downloads by stating :

“Opera does not encourage the use of BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP protocols for downloading illegal, copyright infringing material.”

The original announcement from Opera software can be found here
Download Opera 8.02 Preview here

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Shattered CD

One day, in my (a bit) messy and poorly lit room…

“I thought the last time you said, it’s hard to post a cd out from your place”

“Relax, this time is different, I’ll use SpeedPost. The sample CD and the instructions will arrive in your doorsteps before you know it. Besides, I need you to have the CD”

“Uh, ok…”

“Great, it’s settled then. Contact me back when your received the sample CD, bye. *click*”

And so, I waited. I was skeptical of my colleague from singapore is going the sample cd all the way from Singapore. Well, since singaporean customs dept are so fuss when you bring in/out any type of cd along their border.

Just after, I finished my skeptism thinking, the postman arrives at my house. I went out to get the package, and after that I signed my name and other legal stuff.

I hold the package and I felt like everything is intact inside it. Hey, maybe my colleague was right, SpeedPost is indeed different and their service is very fast!

Unfortunately after i opened the package, pieces of plastic and shiny coverpaint dropped out into my carpet. The CD was shattered….

mypapit shattered cd

I guess there goes my colleague’s sample cd. SpeedPost service is undoubtfully fast, but it seems that the CD’s structural integrity wasn’t able to compensate the rigorous travel of high warp they offered.

hmm…

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Viruses from Blogs

As if getting computer viruses in your email wasn?t bad enough, now you can also get a computer virus when you visit a blog.

Hackers are setting up fake blogs which, when visited, infect machines with keylogging software or viruses. Filtering firm Websense says that these hackers then send out email or instant messages that link to the
blog, hoping to lure the unsuspecting.

The worst part? These hazardous programs can get past traditional security measures because of the nature of the attack.

p/s: Wonders what would these crackers do when they get their hands on the upcoming “Longhorn” built-in RSS Reader API? A lot of blogs use RSS you know, hmmm….